Article
Trichinella spiralis: major histocompatibility complex-associated elimination of encysted muscle larvae in swine.
Experimental parasitology - 1 May 1990
Madden K B, Murrell K D, Lunney J K
Abstract excerpt
A heretofore undescribed host-mediated reactivity against encapsulated muscle larvae (ML) of the nematode Trichinella spiralis is reported. Inbred miniature swine (NIH minipigs) of three independent SLA phenotypes, which received a primary oral dose of 300 T. spiralis ML, successfully resisted a...
Topics
- Animals
- Histocompatibility Antigens
- Larva
- Least-Squares Analysis
- Major Histocompatibility Complex
- Muscles
- Phenotype
- Swine
- Swine Diseases
- Swine, Miniature
- Tongue
- Trichinella
